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South Park Creators Admitting To Dropping Acid Before Cross-Dressing At The Oscars

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Like many a quinceañera I’ve known, South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker delighted, intrigued, confused and repulsed people the world over when they donned copies of iconic celebrity dresses to the Academy Awards in 2000. “What are they on?” many must have wondered. And the answer to that is “acid, of course.”

The duo told Jimmy Kimmel about what exactly happened on that fateful and Lycra-encased evening:

We thought of it, sort of, the week before. And then the day came and we’re just, like, so nervous. We’re like, “No no no there’s no way,” you know? And it was, like, “We’re not really gonna wear these dresses.” We had tuxes as a backup because we thought we were gonna chicken out. And we did. And we were like, “Let’s not do that. Let’s not do that.” But then we were like, “Let’s take a little bit of the acid and see what happens.” So we did that and of course an hour later we were like, “We gotta wear the dresses!”

This is different from anyone else’s nighttime preparations… how?

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  • Anonymous

    Old story

  • Darladoon

    why would *anyone* want to trip at the oscars…..???

    any experienced tripper knows that when you start to come on…..

    you simply NEED peace and quiet……a walk through a forest or out in the desert,
    with some alice coletrane on the ipod, and copious bottles of water…

  • Anonymous

    Couple of sicko pervs.

  • Darladoon

    (envy)

  • Sean

    One persons “sicko pervs” is another’s funniest, most insightful comedians on the planet.

  • Heitomasia

    It sure is.

  • john.kliber

    That’s exactly what I would’ve done if I was a stupid moron and I am…

    …a stupid moron.

    Life is fun. Especially on acid. It’s a good thing they didn’t wear the tuxes. They might’ve freaked out and thought they were penguins. As it is, lord knows what they did to each other.

    I had a friend who took acid when he was acting in a play. I don’t know how he did it. In the audience and during intermission and higher than a kite as well, I couldn’t even walk around the theatre without leaning against the walls like it was the Titanic listing before sinking.

    But that’s life at 15.

  • Anonymous

    Ans still no one cared.

  • Anonymous

    says Jerry Lewis.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, the guy on the right looks like Abbie Hoffman.

    The ’60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.”

    Abbie Hoffman

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I think we found one of the answers to why Matt and Trey are so nuts!!  Lol!! =) 

  • Lloyd C

    These far  right wing extremists are just jealous that the creators of south park go to the gym on a regular basis while these pinheads have their ventricles filled with nacho cheese and friend..well..anything.

  • Anonymous

    This is a very old story. I remember them talking about this on some interview almost two years ago.

  • Limpbaals

    You are mad, and probably jealous as well, that you don’t look even half as good in pink or a wig.

  • expatpatriot

    Where do you even find acid these days? Is someone still making it, or are these legacy hits from the mythical stash of the nearly-as-mythical Owlsley?

  • Jaybeebaby

    And then they were like… and then they were like… and then they were like?

    Did these guys even FINISH high school?

  • Anonymous

    What you don’t need is orange and beige wallpaper, it has a tendency to start breathing or for your dad to call you home to change a tire.  BTDT.

  • Anonymous

    Someone in CA getting high.  Now THAT is a news story!

    ROFL

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRFNURP4H43DGLWZ3YWKKZJU5U Papa Lazarou

    and yet they could buy and sell you a million times over, and influence more people than you ever will.

  • Anonymous

    Speaking from experience, way back in 1978. 

    I find it hard to believe that anyone could “maintain” under those conditions–while experiencing the affects of LSD-25? Lysergic acid, is an extremely powerful hallucinogen that frequently brings the user the edge of pleasure and/or displeasure.  

    “Dropping acid,” is frequently referred to as “taking a trip,” hence, wearing a dress in a huge room full of people, while “soaring out of your gourd,” (Tom Wolf) many of whom would be disapproving of one’s taking an “acid trip,” could cause paranoia and things could go either way, both good or bad?No matter what, I find it hard to believe that anyone could maintain, sit still, communicate coherently while ducking from the inevitable bats that swarm overhead, (Hunter Thompson) good trip or bad trip, the context would be waay overwhelming.

     Also,  when “tripping,” it is a very good idea to have a”travel agent,” so to speak.  Essentially an agent is a baby sitter of sorts, making sure you stay out of trouble, as much a possible.  (Jail on acid is definitely a bad trip. [No experience in that regard])Ergo, I must conclude the two party warriors were not on acid.  However, I concede that Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker are, possibly, such seasoned, LSD veterans, that they could handle many, many milligrams thereof?   LOL

    Purveyor

  • 173

    Hey Jaybeebaby, who cares if they finished high school. They found a way to make millions even if they didn’t.

  • Experienced

    Not true. It depends on who you are and your state of mind. Nature is good, but the lights and glittering dresses would be outrageous.

    Besides Grateful Dead concerts are anything but quiet.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KSH52GTU7ATNOTCD52RAL3P6XA Jon

    Well, they gave the event the respect it deserves.

  • Anonymous

    They sure are pervs. And no fashion sense either. One of those dresses was bought from the J Edgar Hoover estate sale. Like..so last millennium!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, nobody ever went to the Filmore on acid. That would be crazy. I remember nothing, so I wasn’t there. 

  • Anonymous

    Ok, tell us your secret, bloomers or butt floss?

  • Anonymous

    Stanislavsky method acting. He was in the moment. You were just in the audience trying to act natural. On acid it ain’t easy being you.  

  • Anonymous

    I was and did (Filmore East).

  • Anonymous

    As someone who did plenty of acid in the late 60′s I can tell you it’s easy to maintain on it as long as it’s pure.  I’ve even talked to cops on acid while tripping on the Yale grounds in 1967.  Acid became quite a different story by 1969 when they started cutting it with speed and other junk and that’s when I stopped doing it.  It became unreliable.

  • Anonymous

    As someone who did plenty of acid in the late 60′s I can tell you it’s easy to maintain on it as long as it’s pure.  I’ve even talked to cops on acid while tripping on the Yale grounds in 1967.  Acid became quite a different story by 1969 when they started cutting it with speed and other junk and that’s when I stopped doing it.  It became unreliable.

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    Pretty sure all the colors and dazzle would make for a fun trip.

    Just don’t go staring at mirrors or anything foolish.

  • Anonymous

    Take a look at your baby pictures, once upon a time everybody looked like Abby Hoffman.

  • Indigo710

    The green dress is a knockoff of a  dress that Jennifer Lopez  wore  to the oscars, the other is a knockoff of the one that Gwyneth Paltrow wore.

  • http://twitter.com/DrunkReport DrunkReport.com

    We still all clicked it.

    SOUTH PARK RULES

  • Sean68

    They couldn’t have been tripping hard. The times I did it, I couldn’t even go into a 7-11.

  • Sean68

    They couldn’t have been tripping hard. The times I did it, I couldn’t even go into a 7-11.

  • Sean68

    Things can go south on acid very quickly. The first time I did it was with a friend in high school. After about 90 minutes, he was convinced he was dying and threatened to kill me if I didn’t take him to see his mother. Most of the other times we did it (maybe a dozen or so times) were great experiences that I genuinely believe opened me up to the possibilities of the universe. I know that sounds goofy, but I think most acid trippers will know what I’m talking about.

  • Anonymous

    YES, I do know what you are talking about. LOL Done in the right context with the right people, can actually be a seminal moment in one’s life.

    (Note: the references to Tom Wolfe’s, “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test” and Hunter Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing.”)

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    BUT, did you want to be “talk[ing] to Cops on acid while tripping?”

    Sincerely, I did not want to enter into a–my drug experience was better than your drug experience, discussion. Rather, simply express my conclusion that taking LSD is a “long, slow journey, at other times, like being shot out of a cannon.” Either way, a lengthy stop in a room full of “un-cool” people, would, at the very least, be “a bummer.”

    In fact, I can’t think any worse place to be while on LSD? For example, wandering through the California Redwoods, a Barn Party, full of fellow space travelers, or the Park at the 4th of July, would all be way more desirable than what Stone and Parker allegedly did?

    “Out her on the perimeter there are no stars, out here we is …”

  • Anonymous

    My point exactly!

  • Anonymous

    “Turn on, tune in and drop out”….?   Trivia

  • muslim

    Hitler influenced a lot a people…just because this guys influence a lot of stupid people (like you), or because they have a lot of cash, (like they do)doesn´t mean  they are better human beings (not even) but for you and your middle america way of thinking they  are great guys ,aren´t your heros?

  • Anonymous

    What’s unfortunate is they influence too many kids to act like bullies.

  • john.kliber

    I forgot the rules of a card game in the middle of a card game on acid once. How did he remember his lines?

    The next play that company did was Alice In Wonderland and the hooka smoking caterpillar had a real joint in play. 1969. Hubba hubba. The funny thing is that’s it’s a children’s theater company.

  • Sean68

    What’s funny is that I never had a bad trip on it. But the first time I took mushrooms, I had a horrible experience. And it was all because of the context. I had probably spent the first hour just listening to Gimme Shelter over and over again. And then the bad blood between me and the guy I was tripping with simmered and just became a very bad experience. I can’t even describe it. You ever read the play “No Exit” by Sartre? It was kind of like that. Basically three hours in hell.

  • Sean68

    A few weeks ago I listened to an interview with one of the Merry Pranksters. I think it was Fresh Air with Terry Gross. At any rate, the guy talked all about Kesey, Jack Cassidy, Tom Wolfe and the entire cast of that scene. One think he said, brought back a lot of memories (of the mid-80s) for me of what tripping was like (fyi, I haven’t done it in over 20 years). That the next, after he tripped, he noticed that his face was sore but wasn’t sure why. And then it dawned him: he had spent the previous 8 hours the day before with a non-stop smile.

  • Sean68

    You ever hear Robert Frost, speaking extemporaneously, at JFK’s inauguration? Ever other sentence is punctuated with “you know…you know…” Matt and Trey–particularly Trey–are satirists of the first order. And they have the balls to go after not just the right but frequently the left–and that does take balls because when you go after lefties, you’re going after the beliefs of the people who define the cultural standards of good and bad; smart and stupid; cool and hip; and funny and unfunny.

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    They smoked some hash and shared a fifth of whiskey, most likely.

  • Anonymous

    Timothy Learys dead- the Moody blues

  • Anonymous

    Electric Koolaid Acid Test

  • Anonymous

    Righties doing drugs. Who knew? Alert Rush.

  • Anonymous

    This was entertaining.  I wrote and posted a comment on my impression that Stone and Parker would be in way over their head in a context such as that, “tripping!”  The flood of responses, some who agreed others who did not, who cares, it was fun, kind of like an LSD reunion of sorts.

    SEAN68 said it real well:  ”I could even go into a 7-11 while I was tripping!”  Yup!  my point exactly!

    Of course, there were “damn bats that kept attacking Hunter Thompson and his attorney” on the way to Vegas!  LOL  

    “Strange Days have found us”

    Purveyor

  • Anonymous

    “*Strange Days have tracked us down” how ya been.?

  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/ncbreese Christine Breese

    Well, that’s one way to garner some attention!

  • Anonymous

    LOL Same as purveyor1.I did not want to enter into a–my drug experience was better than your drug experience. But I got to say, I have been there and have done that as well 30 yrs ago.Not anymore. Last trip was the worst I did 2 hits of Orange Sunshine. And kinda walked into bad situation.Real bummer.You can’t always control your enviroment. Shit happens! Like today for example . I’m a can away from killing a six pack and I”m going to just sit here and watch it die!  

  • Anonymous

    SEAN,

    As for Sartre, I’ve read some of his philosophy: “Search for a Method,” I have on my my bookshelf somewhere, for instance.However, I’ll look into the play: “No Exit,”  thank you.Regarding the subject matter, I think we can all agree, those of us with experience, that “context is everything!”  LOL

    “Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind”  Jim Morrison

  • Gabby

    Oh yeah, they are so edgy and over the top – but not even acid will make them stand up to the muslim religion, lol.  They backed away from that real quick and have not touched it since, but every other religion is fair game.   For that, they deserve no respect.
    They are punk cowards.

  • Gabby

    Oh yeah, they are so edgy and over the top – but not even acid will make them stand up to the muslim religion, lol.  They backed away from that real quick and have not touched it since, but every other religion is fair game.   For that, they deserve no respect.
    They are punk cowards.

  • Anonymous

    It was very plentiful in the late 90′s / early 00′s rave scene. I don’t know about now, but my nieces say the scene is still very much alive.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t believe these fools have ingested any type of drug since a good hit of acid would probably straighten their asses right on out!

  • Wrightjp

    I totally agree that great trips occur in peace and quiet type situations.  and sometimes when things get overwhelming whilst tripping peace and quiet IS the only thing that can help.  BUT any experienced tripper knows that other trippers may be (and hopefully are, for diversity’s sake) different and everyone is happiest trippin in different situations.  for lack of words to explain psychedelics; really, really fucking awesome shit can happen while coming up on a lot of acid in a place full of other people (preferably theyre on acid as well and especially at shows).  but yea im actually not sure why anyone would want to trip at the oscars hahah

  • RODNEYDANGERFIELD

    you know im no astronaut but i think more than a couple of people know how to make lsd

  • RODNEYDANGERFIELD

    I totally agree that great trips occur in peace and quiet type
    situations.  and sometimes when things get overwhelming whilst tripping
    peace and quiet IS the only thing that can help.  BUT any experienced
    tripper knows that other trippers may be (and hopefully are, for
    diversity’s sake) different and everyone is happiest trippin in
    different situations.  for lack of words to explain psychedelics;
    really, really fucking awesome shit can happen while coming up on a lot
    of acid in a place full of other people (preferably theyre on acid as
    well and especially at shows).  but yea im actually not sure why anyone
    would want to trip at the oscars hahah

  • rodneydangerfield

    I don’t think Papa L was insinuating that they were morally better human beings because they could do that, but saying they probably didn’t even need to go to high school.

  • expatpatriot

    Apparently so. It would beat making methamphetmine from stolen cold tablets as a hobby.

  • rodneydangerfield

    DAMN it doesn’t seem like they were trying to be “edgy” i think they were simply telling a funny story, they were kind of famous and edgy before that.  And how can anyone who wasnt with them that day say they were not on acid?  And how would acid help them stand up to the muslim religion?  Even though they did make fun of it like other religions, I wouldn’t blame them for backing away – i dont think many other religion have sects that want to physically destroy other “inferior” societies (the west) I wouldn’t make light of the muslim religion either

  • rodneydangerfield

    haha yea if i had the fairly extensive chemical knowledge required to make good, clean LSD and the connects to get the ingredients i would make it more than a hobby. andddd if prison was not a possibility

  • http://profiles.google.com/anthony.citrano Anthony Citrano

    Key portion of the quote: “..a little bit..”

  • http://twitter.com/seejai Cori Zimmer

     I don’t think their network would let them because of all the death threats. They censored it against their will.

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